Yeah I dont get the prerenjous tag. I could maybe see self indulgent being applied, though I wouldn't agree with that either. The medicated aspect makes me think he had some personal experience with that sort of thing.

I don’t keep up with how films are funded, I do think that’s not a great thing to have your film crowdfunded, I don’t like that. It’s like are you going to hand out free tickets? You want me to pay for the film and pay for the ticket?

That being said the film was borderline great. Both films are. Go check it out again. I think he’s the best writer/director/actor of this generation. It’s difficult enough to write. It’s extremely difficult to direct, and then to be in front of the camera all in the same film? I can’t think of a better example of someone who does this.

Studios don't know how to market film and make a misleading trailer, tale as old as time.

Zach likes em young is all.

It involves the death of a beloved pet, so I would avoid tbh

I've seen a lot of pretentious filmmaking- and have read some pretentious things, too- and still don't understand the blanket criticism that this movie is pretentious. It seems honest and thoughtful and heartfelt- is that what pretentious means to some people?

Canada presumably doesn't care because so many shows are filmed there anyway.

Anti fascist Pinocchio for the win

Wow, great list. Arrested and Parks are all time favorites of mine. The Netflix stuff kind of fell flat, but I still appreciate it existing. And, coincidently, going through the last season of B99 right now and sort of really dislike it. This is not the show I look to for viewpoints on real life events, such as police issues. And ooh, Rosa is high, wow how great is it that weed is now available everywhere!? Holt and Jake's interplay has always been the best of that show for me. Braugher breathed life into a truly memorable character. Impeccable delivery.

Also Marcell the Shell with Shoes On

I missed it but I have the games recorded. What time during the game did it play so I can watch it?

Like I said, been a while since I saw it. I did not remember how it ended, but I would have been disappointed had he not gone back. Cliche of course, but only a crazy man would leave her behind. I would totally watch the next phase of their lives together. And maybe they don't last. Maybe they do. Maybe she goes to LA to help him pack up his life there. Maybe he gets an offer to good to turn down and she stays and becomes resentful as success goes to his head. Just spitballing lol

It's been ages but I remember the end they decided not to stay together and to part and they talked about it somewhat in depth, then in the end fuck that noise and they decided to just stay together. And I hated that. I would've rathered they part, would've actually been somewhat interesting and different.

If you saw Erin in his office she saw that he used to be a a world class burger chef, so I'm guessing he always has those ingredients to hand

Just to name a few:
Arrested Development
Parks & Rec
Brooklyn Nine Nine

Scrubs is so utterly middling & lazily written, the whole setting is just a prop, it's like a comedy version of a Bruckheimer procedural, just being honest.

Pretty much all the Hell segments are shot with a sort of deranged creativity (which is appropriate for Hell of course) that would be particularly troubling for pretty much any normal child, so the fact this stayed with you is very much the same for any other kids who were born in the mid 80's- it happened to me too, though I was also one of those 'Tales from the Crypt'/Monster Joke/Monsters and Aliens/Reads-lots-of-Books kids so I managed to flip the trauma into appreciation fairly quickly.

some of the big hits for me on this topic are: the bathtub scene from the IT miniseries which I walked in on one night while staying at my uncle's place when I was maybe 6 or 7, this random moment from the Alien ripoff Leviathan where a monster's arm is sliced by an elevator that I caught on USA one night a few years later, and this Christmas-time dinner at a neighbor's house where one of the TV's in a corner of the house had The Shining on and I kept going back and forth between the party and the movie and I think my combination of confusion, horror and fascination with what I was seeing actually inspired my interest- I think I was no older than 9 or 10 for that one.

There’s a lot actually https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManicPixieDreamGirl

Natalie Portman I think is the most solid example, but there were a lot of shows/movies made with them in the 90’s / early 2000’s.

Zoey Deschanel in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is also a pretty good example.

its not surprising if they would have everything even if they dont cook it for the guests

I didn't even know this was a category lol. What other characters fall into this group?

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Watch “The Art of Self Defense” a dark comic take on toxic masculinity

I mean, I could accept this for sure. That's why I qualified my statement with " what we see as fans". It's disappointing, but not surprising. Also, do you find it interesting that he's never been a part of the franchises out there that so many actors have jumped on? Your MCUs, DC type stuff. Personal choice or a product of his difficulty to work with?

yea, repeatedly.

I saw a tik tok awhile back about how manic pixie dream girls really just come off on screen like women with autism without being intentionally written that way.

I don’t know if it holds for every MPDG trope but it definitely works for Natalie Portman in Garden State.

I agree. I loved Garden State when it came out, and I still love it, although it is flawed. But I get the impression it’s a movie people love to trash-talk a lot, like it’s a go-to “bad” movie, but I don’t think it deserves that much hate.